Box 9

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Black and white image shows female worker feeding the silk "roving" from a bobbin at the top of the frame into a spindle at the bottom of the frame. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company. 17.75 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

Scope and Contents First Drawing or Straightening of Fibers--Silk Industry (Spun Silk) [Cheney Bros. Silk Manufacturing Co.], South Manchester, Conn. Black and white image shows rows of drawing or picking machines, a step in the process of converting raw silk into fibers. Female operators are seen removing and arranging the fibers in preparation for spinning. Each machine has a number of plates of needles, which act as combs. The fibers come from the combs straightened. They then wrap about the drums to the...

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Black and white image shows close-up view of raw silk skeins. The skeins are shown with their ends immediately in front of the camera. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company. 17.75 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Black and white image shows a workman removing raw silk from an opened bale in the Cheney Bros. Silk Manufacturing Co. plant in South Manchester, Conn. Another workman is stacking skeins onto a cart. Raw silk can be produced more economically in China, Japan and Italy than in the United States, which is why most raw silk is imported. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company. 17.75 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Black and white image shows a female worker using a device designed to combine multiple fibers into a single thread. From eight to fifteen threads from as many cocoons are combined in a single thread for the reel. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company. 17.75 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

Scope and Contents Black and white image shows four girls and one workman gathering the silk ends in a silk reeling plant on Mount Lebanon. The little girl on the right has got hold of the ends of loose silk threads to bring them together to form a fiber of the necessary thickness. These threads are passed through the eyelets or guides of the arrangement overhead, and then transferred to the reeling frames boxed in at the left. The girl leaning against the wall is tying the loose ends. The two girls sitting...

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Black and white image shows rows of equipment used for drying bags of raw silk skeins after soaking in warm soapsuds. Workmen are seen hanging the bags above the bins as supervisors look on. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company. 17.75 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Black and white image shows a female worker weighing skeins of raw (reeled) silk that are most likely imported from Japan. Piles of skeins are in view. The worker wears a long white apron over her clothes and uses a small scale on the counter in front of her. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company. 17.75 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Black and white image shows femaile worker arranging frisons after washing, in preparation for the dressing machine process. Frisons are unreelable silk cocoons pulled loose and matted together into a thick rope-like strand, as can be clearly seen in the woman's hands here. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company. 17.75 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Black and white image shows rolls of fine silk fiber in a highly finished state, having gone through various washing, cleaning, dressing, and combing processes. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company, ca. 1914. 17.75 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.